VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"You are the weird one here, not us."

Elio continued sitting in his place as he moved his head around to see the creature that was now circling around them.

It seemed to be evaluating them, observing them closely for what was needed to be done with them.

It needed the grass that they were hiding, that much was certain, however, that wasn't all there was to this.

{ "There's nothing weird about me. I'm not the one who could see divine beings with eyes that somehow possesses the ability to see the [Truth] to some extent.

I'm also not a servant that possesses locked up celestial powers.

I'm simply what I am. There's nothing weird about 'I' from anyone but your perspective." }

The creature had three fox like tails, just that like its entire body which seemed to be made from that silver fog, these tails were semi-physical.

The creature itself was somewhat adorable, however, there was still a lot that he couldn't under about this creature.

"What exactly are you? My eye skill reacts to you but unlike the other creatures, it doesn't tell me anything about you."

{ "Just the fact that it reacts to my existence is a big thing. Not many 'things' could comprehend a divine existence.

You see, since you're simply a dumb human from another world, you shouldn't even have been able to see me even as I stand before you.

That's what distinguishes mortal from the divine.

My very existence should have been like an incomprehensible concept to you… yet it doesn't seem to be the case." }

Elio looked at him, some confusion and some clarity now present in his mind.

"Well I guess we are unique, but isn't your existence still a more weird thing?"
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A creature that understands its divine nature, a being so powerful that it can protect this paradise all by itself, a natural calamity that must have guarded this place for a very long time.

There were many things about this creature that not only were pretty and great, but also were scary and terrifying.

And yet, it feared the eyes that Elio had.

It feared being seen by someone it can deal with in a matter of seconds.

It needed a simple blade of grass to perhaps sustain itself, and just for that grass, it had come all the way to him despite its shy nature.

And now that they were before one another, that creature was calling Him Weird.

{ "I'm nothing weird. If anything, I'm simple and normal.

I have done what I like and I cannot do it right now SINCE YOU'VE STOLEN MY LEAVES!" }

It screamed at him, and though not physically, Elio felt a strong surge of emotion urging him to give up the grass that had collected.

That urge was so strong that, for a moment, he felt himself being under a daze and taking out the grass from his inventory.

But…

[{ Master! Snap out of it! }]

Sera was there with him, so he came to his senses… and soon realized what had just happened.

{ "See! Your response was normal! You do what the one with higher authority wants willingly! And yet that doesn't apply to this Angel bird!" }

The creature seemed upset.

Elio looked at Sera for a moment since he thought that creature had used some kind of trick on him, but what actually happened was much simpler.

"So… this is what they call Divine Authority?"

{ "This is your first time experiencing it and Yet! Look at you! Why are you resisting it so well with that weak constitution of yours!?" }

The creature was frustrated. It could not understand why Elio was doing so well before him when he was just a weak human.

Furthermore, he couldn't understand why Sera was the way she was right now.

All of this frustrated the creature, and it simply couldn't take it anymore.

{ "Haaaa!" }

It sat down on the side where Elio had placed those grass for it, picked up one of the blades, and started chewing on it from not the pointed tops but from the middle part.

{ "It seems neither of you understand yourselves much." }

The creature looked at Elio with its purple eyes which seemed to be looking right into his soul, and the same way, it looked at Sera.

Though, the way it was eating that grass simply made it seem more adorable than intimidating.

"We might not know as much as you about ourselves, but you know what? We don't really know anything about you at all.

In fact, didn't you mention the two humans that came before me? Can you tell me about them? Or about how to get out of this place?"

Elio still had the same goal as he did when he came here.

He had to get out, and now that he was before the creature that could help him get out of here, he didn't mind coming straight to the point.

{ "Hmm? You want to get out? Does… do you mean you want to get out of this cave? Or this forest? Or this mountain region?" }

"Out of this dangerous place, beyond the forest under the mountain preferably."

With or without this creature's assistance, he had to get out of here. And this creature who seemed to have been here for a long time was the only one that might know the way out.

{ "Hmmm? You want to go away? You… do you not know how to do that?

Haven't you been here for a while now? Why do you think those creatures come here when the sky turns red?" }

"Hmm? Is there a reason? I just thought they were mad and driven by some kind of innate intense desire…"

They were monsters in his eyes, and he didn't think there was any great reason for those monsters to have any 'reason' for doing what they were doing.

{ "See. That's why I said you're the weird ones." }

The rabbit, the divine creature, looked at both Elio and Sera with an upset, helpless expression.

It didn't know how it had fallen into this situation, but, the two that he was before right now… were quite dumb.

They knew pretty much nothing about where they were and what was happening here.

They were different from the two that came here before them… so, it had no choice but to educate them itself.

{ "Haaaaa… the lake in the center of this forest. It's a boundary." }

The creature started speaking and, at the same time as when it did, Alex and her party had arrived in the Capital City of the kingdom of Viv.